People v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial court abused its discretion and “usurped the prosecutor’s exclusive authority to decide whom to prosecute” when the victim witness failed to appear, but the prosecution “had a viable basis to proceed”
• stating that “the decision whether to dismiss a case or proceed to trial ultimately rests in the sole discretion of the prosecutor.”
• “[T]he decision whether to dismiss a case or proceed to trial ultimately rests in the sole discretion of the prosecutor.”
• “[T]he prosecutor alone possesses the authority to determine whether to prosecute the accused.”
• “[T]he prosecutor alone possesses the authority to determine whether to prosecute the accused.”
• “[T]he prosecutor alone possesses the authority to determine whether to prosecute the accused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Gillis
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2006-04-05· cited 274×
• People v. Jones
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2002-09-24· cited 29×
• People v. Davis
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2013-04-16· cited 12×
• Kent County Prosecuting Attorney v. City of Grand Rapids
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2015-12-11
• Jeff Payne v. David Payne
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2021-07-29

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Genesee Prosecutor v. Genesee Circuit Judge
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1972-02-25· cited 173×
• People v. Bean
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1998-06-16· cited 118×
• People v. Peters
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1995-08-10· cited 52×
• People v. Morrow
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1995-10-27· cited 33×
• People v. Jackson
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1991-11-18· cited 23×
• People v. Williams
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1990-12-17· cited 17×